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Democratic presidential candidate Amy Klobuchar said Friday President Trump is engaging in a ‘disinformation campaign’ by sharing a video doctored to display House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as inarticulate.

President Trump said Friday he granted Attorney General William Barr sweeping new powers to declassify intelligence about FBI spying on the Trump campaign in 2016 because the public needs to know “how they started and why it started.”

Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg took at passing swipe at 2020 front-runner Joe Biden on Thursday, declaring that “nobody’s earned the nomination” based solely on their political experience.

Rudy Giuliani, President Trump’s attorney, gave a confusing statement Friday, seemingly a statement directed at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, whom he shared a doctored video of Thursday displaying her as inarticulate.

House Judiciary Committee chairman Rep. Jerrold Nadler said Thursday special counsel Robert Mueller has asked for a private session to testify about his report, which investigated President Trump’s presidential campaign and Russian interference in the 2016 election.

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